Bootup to Blue Screen

[mighty-mouse]

I wanted to pass along a little information that I found to a problem that I know others have seen. I installed the 10.4.8 Jas and the first boot after the install was successful. However, the next reboot only took me to a blue screen without a mouse and the system did not function. I found a posting that fixed my problem and wanted to pass it along.

 

Here is the link: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-7498.html

 

Here is the actual fix that I used and it solved my problem. I even get the login screen now. Also note that using a -v on boot did not really seem to work although it appeared to work sometimes.

 

4. In my case, as I had complete garbage in my /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist file (mentioned by another poster) - rather than trying to reconstruct it, I simply renamed it to /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist.dead by typing:

 

mv /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist.dead

 

then restarted with

 

reboot now

 

 

As if by magic, everything worked as normal and my day of hell was over.

 

Before you try stage 4, I suggest you check the state of your GlobalPreferences.plist file by typing

 

more /Library/Preferences/GlobalPreferences.plist

 

and seeing if you see normal XML formatted text or garbage, like I did. If you see properly formatted XML, then this may not help you.